Narcissistic Victim Syndrome is a relatively new concept in psychiatry. Until recently, research mainly focused on Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) – the perpetrator – whereas it is precisely the victims who often seek help from a psychiatrist.
Hi, I’m Judith Hagelen. Along with Herman Liesemeijer, I organized a workshop on healing from narcissistic abuse in 2017. In this guest blog, I share the story of my nine-year relationship with a narcissist.
Diagnosing narcissism is very difficult. When someone has narcissistic personality disorder, they will often not be diagnosed. They believe that everything is someone else’s fault and never take responsibility for their behavior. As a result, a diagnosis is unoften impossible to do be done by a competent professional, and “remote diagnosis” must be done. However,…
Everyone is jealous sometimes. It’s a completely normal emotion. Nobody likes it when someone else tries to hit on your partner. But a narcissist’s jealousy is malicious. In order to make the distinction between ordinary jealousy and the morbid jealousy of a narcissist, I will focus on narcissistic jealousy in this article.
In this blog post, I’m going to talk about narcissistic behavior and the tactics of narcissists. Narcissists enjoy controlling and inflicting suffering on others. They use a variety of vicious tactics to manipulate, confuse, and devalue the person they target. Moreover, they know how to use these tactics in such a way that they are…
We all know them, those bloated people who always have to be the center of attention. These kinds of people are often called narcissists. But what are the signs of a narcissist and is it so easy to uncover someone as a narcissist? The inflated attention grabber is usually laughed at behind their back. However,…
In general, you can assume that your parents want the best for you. But if, like me, you were unlucky enough to be born in a family with a narcissistic mother, that is not so obvious. Now as an adult, I still experience the effects of an extremely destructive childhood…
